overwhelmingly rejects an e.u. proposed raid on bank savings with not a single yes vote in parliament now the country needs a plan b. to avoid bankruptcy. president obama is in israel for his first foreign visit after reelection with claims his trip is papering over the cracks in the relationship rather than seeking real progress on key issues like peace in the middle east and a potential strike on iran. the number of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay nearly double was according to camp officials with at least two inmates in hospital. i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow. thousands of cypriots are celebrating after the country's

parliament gave a resigning no vote to the e.u. i.m.f. bailout package the move could have seen the government take up to ten percent of people savings from private private bank accounts as a precondition to securing the much needed ten billion euro loan now that it has been rejected the ailing euro zone member will have to work out another plan to avoid bankruptcy and russia could be ready to lend a helping hand wolf for more on this let's cross nag live to our t.v. gold piece of. your plan a is out the window what could be b plan. well time may be running out for cyprus there was speculation earlier that if we jacked it to the controversial european union bailout package which it did on tuesday then the cyprian banking system could be facing a default and the country's finance minister is currently in moscow or waiting for the outcome of his meeting with his russian counterpart and there is speculation

that while he may ask russia for a loan before the end of the day all this is happening despite handler merkel to direct calls on other current we not to even consult with anyone about its current economic problems except for brussels and the so-called troika of key investors despite these calls will lead on tuesday the cyprian brizard and personally called for it which and told him that his country's parliament had just rejected the bailout proposal which suggested introducing a one time general tax which could have affected the nearly all bank accounts in the country and to the tax could have reached nearly ten percent when it came to counts exceeding one hundred thousand euros russia holds a billions of euros in cyprian bank accounts earlier officials including the president said that such measures would be clear expropriation of funds and voiced deep concern about the situation. in cyprus itself the bailout proposal was

a scene with mass anger and widespread protests across the whole country since its economies based on foreign money and the poor just were similar to what we've seen in other troubled e.u. zone members like for to go and greece. ok you go thank you do you have to leave it at that so you can offer our tape reporting live from moscow well arty's test has been following events in cyprus she reports now from nicosia. well there was clearly a certainly a lot of opposition to going into the a vote that the parliament had made opposition coming from the people as well as politicians voicing how is this kind of a position from brussels from the e.u. ministers of the i.m.f. is unfair to make the a citizens a shoulder bear the brunt of the burden of having to recapitalize their banks if they did not at all see agreed to this kind of package there were

a lot of people who were gathered near the parliament building it rejecting the troika very angry at the european union it particularly in germany had feeling that they were pushed into a corner too high and they're having to accept a condition that was really very tough on them and this is really quite a statement to be made by the cypriot parliament there were thirty six you know those nineteen abstentions and zero yes is a quite a statement indeed to made when other countries that had received bailouts from the european union have had to accept very stringent and draconian. packages stare to costs a lot of a lot of measures that really where the people were bearing the brunt and so cyprus is sending a very strong no to be a troika to the european union and it really is interesting to see how this unfolds the next step for the parliamentarians here is to present other options to work with to be a president to be a public and they are looking at opposite don't involve the troika there are a lot of indications of that especially coming from the leftist parties they really

don't want to see any involvement from the e.u. at this point but if that will work and if they will come up with it with an amount that will actually help to solve the financial crisis of cyprus it is really a big question here. well for more on the saw a purse turmoil i'm joined by the political analyst alex call by mr caldwell thanks for your time firstly that does appear to be a standoff there isn't a between the e.u. in cyprus would need a side willing to make concessions do you think brussels will risk being taught euro zone will they allow cyprus to go bankrupt do you think. yes i mean it used to real possibility no. what we see is if you're a big e.u. member then you will be left alone and you will be bailouts and you if you are a small member you will be deleted arrest if it's really of concern yes see if you do you actually believe that levy will live cyprus to go bankrupt did you think that they will step in my way with something else. i don't think there

will be a plan b. from brussels i think that you know if if the plan is actually accepted eventually by the. by the parliament by the cyprus parliament what we see is a slow motion bank run in the polices like portugal ireland italy greece and spain for example in starter legal for a spanish worker to open a savings accounts in germany and and that's the only place where. her her savings will will be in safety which could see also. the total collapse of the reputation of cyprus as a financial center and. we are talking about real jobs and real money in cyprus and lot of people will be imploding the in the future. or wherever if if the plan is not implemented. i think we would like to see. basically suppressed will go

bankrupt as a country and you can have a quite a clear idea of what's going on in the future if the pledge is not implemented if you look at what happened in the person iceland it's a similar country where the banks were bigger than the economy and two years from now the day they get bankrupt again we'll actually and know they are there but also i think that you know it would be the best case for cyprus to follow the. basin and the model and go bankrupt now actually. but we heard that the german finance minister warned that cyprus and its banks that would never be able to reopen if it did reject the terms of this bilat do you think that's a real possibility a repeat than of what you just said about iceland. yes that's a real possibility that we are really it's you know it's a really. which we see you know is a reality of the system we live in we live in

a system where the government or the state controls the economy by controlling the economy i mean controlling the wealth and the. people. so what we see now is like a trade between what people are only was a blood. and sweat against. backed. currency like the. euro and it's really it's really sad to see actually but again it's only because it is a small you can treat. a country like france for example which is a big country and. germany will actually pay for for ok all right well thank you very much mr corbell we do have to leave it there but thank you for your insight into this and we are awaiting to see what does happen next as alice alex political analyst. could russian ruble would be one of

the reasons the e.u. wasn't willing to fully cyprus that is the baiting cross talk. like today. the germans were only agreed to this bailout if the russians depositors which is a lot is about thirty billion dollars worth of russian money in those banks they don't get away scot free and it's because of deposits overwhelmingly the people who are getting by this tax on depositors are cypriots. and the notion that russian oligarchs and so on are being bought this is really put about in germany in order to justify the very harsh treatment of. these. barack obama is heading to key ally israel for the first time as u.s.

president obama's previous term in office was marred by frosty relations with israel's recently reelected prime minister benjamin netanyahu however expectations of a breakthrough on the most pressing issues appear low even among u.s. officials and many see the much trumpeted visit as a p.r. stunt. reports. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip was dubbed clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bomb has turned. we've called the visit then shakable alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than clever spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian

issue on the wards the rise of islamist forces in. egypt where do you see from jerusalem new worries not what you see from washington at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter. a bomber came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised as the streets of palestine are also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if obama doesn't confront you know who i'm sitting. months and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say when you will of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we've the jewish

people have always wished to live there and we live there with their encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to running here to a bomb and netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the u.s. and iran being themselves quite strained franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. have relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united states its not its in the resources of the middle east and not in its people and who ever think that it is the united states had changed that is it will prove differently proof that

comes at a price literally the three day trip cost millions of dollars high price for this it with so little promise for us they are seen as hell of it. so had previous hour iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion in just a few minutes we will talk to r.t. lucy cavanagh in baghdad about high stability in the country is proving to be invasive poorest just after a quick break. well . it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you

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attacks in baghdad when sixty five people died in a series of blasts across the city today which motley tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion became the deadliest in iraq so far this year after a western coalition stepped in to bring freedom and democracy stability is still leading the nation. is in iraq and joins us live now. traveled around parts of iraq over the last few days what is the feeling among the people there how do they feel about the situation in the country right now. well almost everyone that we've met here in iraq is deeply scarred and traumatized by war in one way or another whether was losses under the saddam era or the massive violence and bloodshed that's been unleashed by the u.s. war and subsequent occupation not to mention the sectarian and ethnic lines that that war has opened blood shed is unfortunately the new norm for most of the parts of iraq here where we're standing right now is actually the semi autonomous region

of iraqi kurdistan is probably the only area in iraq that has seen life improved since the war in large part due to profits from the oil that's been found in this region but less than an hour away in the city of kirkuk where we went a completely different picture checkpoint after checkpoint blast wall surrounding the city it was quite dangerous for us to move around without a military escort and most of the residents complained of potentials of security attacks almost at any moment so this is something that's really been reflected across the country and it's quite symbolic of course that on the anniversary of the ten year invasion iraq close that painful chapter much the same way that it began with bombs across baghdad but as for whether the people feel better off or not it really depends on fortunately on their experience their. ethnic affiliations their religion and what they've suffered during the past ten years but let's hear from the residents in their own words so they can explain how they feel about the conflict and the situation now it's quite mixed as you will hear. the situation in

the country is better than the fool we do have a problem that is violent there are lots of explosions the reality is that in the last ten years the country has improved everything is ok except the. way things are today we are suffering all iraqi groups are fracturing. this democracy there are only explosions shootings and kidnapping. we think we would feel free to go out and return so. i can leave but there's no guarantee that i'll come home. so as you heard there the one thing that does seem to unite iraqis today is fear fear of when the next explosion or attack. when you talk of fear lucy but what about how do people actually have any hope things might get better. if the desire for the situation to improve but unfortunately at the moment

many people are pessimistic iraq is currently facing a massive political crisis attacks have been deepening just as the political problems in this country have increased unemployment is rampant and the profits that were supposed to come from the invasion as promised by the americans in the oil have not materialized to better conditions for the people that are still without electricity for much of the day and unfortunately the situation isn't quite better not to mention the fact that you have massive tensions between baghdad and the shia led government of prime minister nouri al maliki and the sunni populations which have been a prize in protesting by the tens of thousands there's also immense tensions between baghdad and the separatist region of kurdistan where we are today so at the moment while things perhaps have improved in the sense that the americans are gone iraq remains a ten but a tender box and the future is still unclear. ok lucy thank you very much for that update. from. a military campaign in iraq was supposed

to overthrow the regime of saddam hussein and protect the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction saddam was toppled w n do you never phoned. now takes a look at whether the means could justify the end in the iraqi war. what for the thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that posing several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the intent of saddam hussein against his own people we had already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath his dream could

hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six terror in violence the effects of the invasion on the iraqi population has been devastating let's look at these numbers over here we're looking at almost five thousand coalition deaths about hundred thirty four thousand of iraq he does but of course those numbers are varying greatly depending on the source and finally you're looking at more than two million displaced people of course not to mention the latest report by the watson institute for international studies at brown university which reckons the war has to date cost the u.s. more than two trillion dollars some american military officials remain undaunted by the numbers and believe what they did ten years ago actually was a good thing i think it was very necessary for us to do something to help the middle east which degree of freedom that it hadn't had before now

a lot of people are going to argue that the iraq invasion did not provide the types of freedom that we had originally envisioned but what what the they're dealing with always they didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least some. once of some freedom unfortunately no map of those places has been provided the latest gallup poll conducted on the eve of the tenth anniversary showed fifty three percent of americans consider the invasion of iraq a mistake the view is shared by at least one man who was among those who ten years ago believed a military operation against saddam hussein was necessary artie's bureau longdon mets' with lord prescott who in two thousand and three was tony blair's deputy prime minister it always used to be denied that it was regime change talking about not only was a review but it's now what motivates the russian i think to be got to iraq you see

these people not talking about intervening but they don't want boots on the ground with that they just want. to kill civilians. so i want the lesson to be learned and we shouldn't repeat it again these countries must develop in all ways as for those iraqis who fought in the war well for them the war is anything but over as they now have to rebuild a country led to the brink of collapse by foreign invaders in the name of ultimate good while those who instigated the carnage seem to show no regret whatsoever. the number of prisoners staging a hunger strike at guantanamo bay has nearly doubled according to u.s. military officials but also admit at least two inmates were treated in hospital for dehydration but do you mind telling this no you must strike the mistreatment of detainees lawyers claim meanwhile the un human rights body has finally responded to mounting media coverage of the guantanamo crisis report as the details are to

proceed to a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the guantanamo hunger strike that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details on quote of the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mo and has she's also expressed concern over the obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island prison and for trying prisoners that are there even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see what is taking place with this hunger strike that prisoners at guantanamo bay went on hunger strike on february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and

sacrilegious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike that we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifty day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized. so the attorneys for these state detainees are sounding the alarm as they've even at the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say help us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. reporting from new york for us well also you also spoke on the phone to

captain jason de ronde a member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo now here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners finding themselves in when i first walked in grimmy room people to go with my car and my afghan car i was shocked. to hear more. and your concern with descriptions of. people who are out about the conditions of confinement because your government. can only talk about i can tell you that american progress other defense attorney never. told me. story about how what happened across or what happened with the social q's. a quick look now at some other news making headlines around the world u.s. lawmakers have decided to ban on assault weapons from proposed gun control legislation officials say the measure lacks support but it's believed

a ban could later be voted on as a separate bill though polls show most americans back an assault weapons ban him for lunch will pro-gun lobby groups such as the national rifle association have pressed no makers to oppose such an. al-qaeda is north african branch say they've killed a french hostage in mali reports claim from he was killed in response to france's intervention in the country the french foreign ministry says it's trying to verify the report but on another french men were seized in mali and nov twenty. ninth coming up next states breaking the set from our washington studio. sigrid laboratory. was able to build the needs most sophisticated which on

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